Iran accuses US of plotting ground assault while publicly seeking talks

Tehran says it will confront any land attack, as Trump says regime's export hub on Kharg island could be taken very easily'

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Iran has warned the US that it is prepared to confront any ground assault, accusing Washington of secretly planning a land attack while publicly seeking talks, as the war that has killed thousands of people and caused the biggest ever disruption to global energy supplies entered its second month.

In a message published to mark 30 days since the start of the war, the Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said: The enemy signals negotiation in public, while in secret it plots a ground attack."